As to the situation of Tibetan refugees the Committee expressed concern over "the reports of deportation of Tibetan asylum seekers to China by Nepal, including unaccompanied minors, and the closure of the Tibetan Refugee Welfare Office in January 2005."
In the 26-page concluding observation on Nepal, the Committee highlighted the importance of the role of civil society in the full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and recommended that Nepal "remove all legal, practical and administrative obstacles to the free functioning of civil society organizations" in the country.
On refugee status determination, the Committee expressed concern about "the rule that refugees status can only be sought by certain categories of asylum-seekers, specifically, the Tibetan who arrived in Nepal before 1990." The Committee also urged Nepal to "as a matter of priority, review its policy regarding birth registration of refugee children and ensure that all children of refugees and asylum seekers born in the State party are issued with birth certificate."
The 34th session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child which took from 17 May to 2 June, 2005, at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, also recommended that the Kingdom of Nepal, "ratify, as a matter of priority, the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness."
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